George E. Smith

George E. Smith
George E. Smith
	Smith in 2009
Born	George Elwood Smith; May 10, 1930; White Plains, New York, US
Died	May 28, 2025 (aged 95); Barnegat Township, New Jersey, US
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania (BS); University of Chicago (PhD);
Known for	Invention of the CCD
Awards	Stuart Ballantine Medal (1973); IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1974); C&C Prize (1999); Edwin H. Land Medal (2001); Charles Stark Draper Prize (2006); Nobel Prize in Physics (2009); Progress Medal (2015); Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2017);
	Scientific career
Fields	Solid-state physics
Institutions	Bell Telephone Laboratories (1959–1986)
Thesis	The Anomalous Skin Effect in Bismuth (1959)
Doctoral advisor	A. W. Lawson

George Elwood Smith (May 10, 1930 – May 28, 2025) was an American applied physicist and a co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD). Smith shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willard Boyle "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor."